prescribed burning

[goblueM]

its spring! finally not the best shots but we didn't have the luxury of taking a timeout to get good ones

fueling up drip torches

backburning the top of the ridge

coming back up the ridge after it burned over

[fishinchicks]

Looks like a pretty good group of pyromaniacs!

Cool view of your side of things, though.

[mmeyer]

Those are great. The last one is my favorite! Thanks for sharing.

[caseymcq]

Where were you burning?

That is some of the cleanest Nomex I have ever seen.

Do you have anymore fire pics?

[goblueM]

hahah fresh nomex straight from mifc i believe. I dunno why we have to send our gear back every year, I like it broken in and used looking. I told my crew members they oughta roll around in the black to at least look like they'd been on a few fires before. burn was down by rushford - have some fire pics from last year but those are the only decent ones from this year

[Dbl]

Great stuff! Thanks for showing these.

[goblueM]

more shots from today - burning in the city this time, which was interesting

backburning

lighting

watchin those invasives get scorched!

rescued this little dude

despite all precautions and signings, someone still called the fire dept...

[USRanger]

Neat shots! At least yours was prescribed unlike the Carlos Avery fire today.

[goblueM]

well apparently we were going to be called out for that fire, but we had to be demobilized in order to make it to work today. so i think mifc didn't want us going out unless we could commit to being out there for as long as it took. bummer, would have loved to work some wildfire instead of a 2 acre prescribed burn!

[Steve Foss]

Good stuff, goblue!

Are you SURE this wasn't a planned photo op? The times I've been along on presribed burns as a newspaper writer or photographer, the Nomex was so broken in you had to hunt to find the yellow.

Again, nice pics!